Foo Fighters, Dee Gees - Hail Satin (2021) [Vinyl Rip, 24/192]

Dave Grohl’s six-piece finds common cause between gaudy disco-pop and willfully absurd arena rock on an album-length collection of Bee Gees covers and live-in-studio Medicine at Midnight cuts.

In late February, less than two weeks after Foo Fighters released their 10th album in more than a quarter century as a band, the arena-rock placebo Medicine at Midnight (rumor has it Bill Gates put a chip in it!), they unceremoniously unveiled a disco alter ego. Billed, semi-funnily, as the Dee Gees, the Dave Grohl-led six-piece premiered their cover of “You Should Be Dancing” on BBC Radio 2. Grohl—ever the candid every-dude—said that the falsetto experiment was inspired by last December’s fascinating HBO documentary about the Bee Gees—never mind that he hadn’t actually seen it.

The stakes could hardly have been lower. The results were hard to fault. Recorded with one-man multi-platinum mint Greg Kurstin, the veteran band’s stab at the Bee Gees’ nuke-proof 1976 hit—the first in a run of disco-pop smashes that would appear on the next year’s gazillion-selling Saturday Night Fever soundtrack—is muscular but essentially faithful. When Grohl channels Barry Gibb’s horndog dancefloor exhortations (“My woman gives me pow-wah!”), it feels as self-consciously silly as disco’s monocultural phase gave audiences a license to be, from Studio 54 to suburban strip malls. Thoroughly harmless, it’s kind of a hoot. It would’ve made a fine novelty single.

TRACKLIST

A1. Dee Gees - You Should Be Dancing
A2. Dee Gees - Night Fever
A3. Dee Gees - Tragedy
A4. Dee Gees - Shadow Dancing
A5. Dee Gees - More Than A Woman
B1. Foo Fighters - Making A Fire (Live At Studio 606)
B2. Foo Fighters - Shame Shame (Live At Studio 606)
B3. Foo Fighters - Waiting On A War (Live At Studio 606)
B4. Foo Fighters - No Son Of Mine (Live At Studio 606)
B5. Foo Fighters - Cloudspotter (Live At Studio 606)





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